mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext3'

[67comet]

I'm stumped, been a Linux'er for about 5 years; 3 of those were with Gentoo, then I moved all my machines away from Gentoo and now I've decided to build one back up Gentoo (I missed my Gentoo).

I have an oddity with my /boot (/dev/hda1). It is ext3 (or that is what I told it to be mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda1) and the box boot up fine, then seems to unmount /boot (/dev/hda1) and doesn't wanna' mount it again.

My fstab appears like:

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/dev/hda1   /boot   ext3   defaults,noatime  0    2

I've tried fsck and it said all was well. I've moved /boot off that partition, re mkfs'ed it, and moved it all back. Rebooted and all went well, then it unmounted it.

When I attempt either:

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mount -t ext3 /dev/hda1 /boot

or

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mount /dev/hda1

I get the same feed back (in my headding)

Help?

Thanks,
Justin

P.S. /dev/hda1 is /boot .. /dev/hda2 is / and /dev/hda3 is swap.

[Rob1n]

Do you have ext3 enabled in the kernel (and module loaded if it's built as a module)? At startup the /boot partition is only read by grub (which contains its own filesystems support), it's not actually mounted until the rest of the filesystems are.

[gentuse]

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modprobe ext3